Urban livelihoods and food and nutrition security in Greater Accra, Ghana
Daniel Maxwell,Carol Levin,Margaret Armar-Klemesu,Marie T. Ruel,Saul S. Morris,Clement Ahiadeke +5 more
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In this paper, the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research and the World Health Organization (WHO) published a study on the effects of vaccination on cancer patients' lung cancer.Abstract:
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Urbanization and its implications for food and farming.
TL;DR: The key issues with regard to agriculture and urbanization are whether the growing and changing demands for agricultural products from growing urban populations can be sustained while at the same time underpinning agricultural prosperity and reducing rural and urban poverty.
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Dietary diversity as a food security indicator
John Hoddinott,Yisehac Yohannes +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether dietary diversity, defined as the number of unique foods consumed over a given period of time, provides information on household food security, and found that dietary diversity would appear to show promise as a means of measuring food security and monitoring changes and impact, particularly when resources available for such measurement are scarce.
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Mycotoxin problem in Africa: Current status, implications to food safety and health and possible management strategies
John M. Wagacha,James W. Muthomi +1 more
TL;DR: Factors that contribute to mycotoxin contamination of food and feed in Africa include environmental, socio-economic and food production, and possible intervention strategies include good agricultural practices such as early harvesting, proper drying, sanitation, proper storage and insect management among others.
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Vulnerability : a view from different disciplines
TL;DR: In this paper, a selective review of the literature from several disciplines to examine how they define and measure vulnerability is presented, including economics, sociology/anthropology, disaster management, environmental science, and health/nutrition.
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The food price crisis and urban food (in)security
Marc J. Cohen,James L. Garrett +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, both national and international policy responses to the rapid food price increases in 2007 and the first half of 2008 did little to address the very serious impacts on low-income urban dwellers.
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Kung Yee Liang,Scott L. Zeger +1 more
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Problems with Instrumental Variables Estimation when the Correlation between the Instruments and the Endogenous Explanatory Variable is Weak
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Sustainable rural livelihoods: Practical concepts for the 21st century
Robert Chambers,Gordon Conway +1 more
TL;DR: The concept of sustainable rural livelihoods as discussed by the authors is based on capability, equity, and sustainability, each of which is both end and means, and is defined as: "a livelihood comprises people, their capabilities and their means of living, including food, income and assets".